(HBO) – Hoa Binh province’s locomotive zone includes Hoa Binh city, Luong Son district and the north of Lac Thuy district. Aware that they will enjoy dynamic development, helping improve locals' material and spiritual lives, and stimulate economic growth in adjacent areas, the agriculture sector has paid attention to improving products' added value, economic efficiency and competitiveness to ensure production sustainability.
Photo: Residents in Cu Yen commune of Luong Son
district have reaped good profits thanks to dragon fruit farming development.
In localities in the locomotive zone, irrigation works
have supplied water to 11,171 ha of rice fields since the beginning of this
year, up 1,312 ha from 2017. The zone is now home to 325 irrigation works and
systems, up 49 works from 2017.
The localities have also formed and developed safe, indigenous vegetable farming
areas, promoted safe farming under VietGAP and food safety standards to meet
market demand. There are 30 production facilities on a total 410.52 ha meeting
food safety, VietGAP and organic standards.
The province has issued seven farming zone codes, including four banana and
dragon fruit cultivation zones for export to China and three pomelo farming
areas to export to Europe, and five codes for packaging facilities for export.
So far, the locomotive zone have shipped over 700 tonnes of banana to China,
and more than 50 tonnes of white and purple sugar canes to Europe.
Along with production development, further attention
has also been paid to raising awareness of environment protection in farming.
As many as 12 training courses have been held to disseminate legal regulations
to 4,000 people on the collection, transport and treating containers of plant
protection chemicals after use.
Additionally, vocational training and technological
transfer courses are held annually with more than 1,410 farmers taking part,
through which they gain new knowledge to meet socio-economic development
requirements in the new period and provide quality products for markets. So
far, 37 products in the One Commune, One Product (OCOP) programme in the zone
have met three-star and higher standards, or 37% of total OCOP products in the
province with nine products rated as four-star, and 28 three-star./.
(HBO) – Promoting its vanguard role, the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union at all levels in Yen Lac district has encouraging members and local youngsters to engage in collective economic models that are suitable to the reality of the locality.
(HBO) – Following the targets set in the resolution of the district People's Council, Lac Thuy district has focused on a raft of measures to increase revenue and prevent budget losses since the beginning of this year.
(HBO) - Coming to the communes of Sao Bay, Nam Thuong, Vinh Dong... in Kim Boi district these days, we can easily see the smiles of the farmers growing cucumbers. It is the harvest time, when the price is agreed, the traders pick, weigh, and pay on the spot with a high price. Along 12B street, it is also crowding with the people buying cucumbers at the beginning of the crop.
(HBO) – The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Hoa Binh province and concerned enterprises organised a ceremony on March 19 to mark the export of the first batch of fresh sugarcane to the US.
(HBO) - According to the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV)’s Hoa Binh provincial branch, the total capital mobilised in the locality by the end of February 2023 by credit institutions neared 40.6 trillion VND (about 1.73 billion USD), up 0.9% compared to the beginning of the year, in which the amount mobilised from organisations and individuals was 30.5 trillion VND , up 1.3%, and deposits from individuals topped 72.5% of the total mobilised capital.
(HBO) – Kim Boi JSC in Hoa Binh province on March 15 exported 22 tonnes of processed bamboo shoots to the Netherlands.
